A sample of 25 adult family caregivers of community-based older adults with dementia was recruited in central Virginia. Participants were 29 to 95 years old, predominantly white, married, female, and high school graduates. We conducted semi-structured interviews that were audio recorded and analyzed...
4.Analysis of psychological status of family members of rabiators and nursing interventions for them狂犬病病人家属心理状态分析及护理干预 5.Objective To understand the health educational needs of senile dementia patients' dependents.目的 了解老年痴呆症病人家属健康教育需求。 6.The doctors told the relativ...
study through patient research platforms, recruited family members/partners of people with dementia, to complete the FROM-16.#Totally, 711 family members/partners (mean age=58.7y, SD=12.5; females=81.3%) of patients (mean age=81.6, SD=9.6; females=66.9) with dementia completed the FROM-16....
Patients Sixty-two demented patients living at home and family members acting as caregivers. Measures Cognitive function, activities of daily living (ADL) and behaviour of demented patients were rated using the Hasegawa scale, the ADL scale and the dementia behaviour disturbance (DBD) scale. ...
The article presents a reprint of the article "Telephone Interventions for Family Caregivers of Patients With Dementia: What Are Best Nursing Practices?," by B. J. Mason and B. E. Harrison, which appeared in the 2008 issue of "Holistic Nursing Practice." It presents a literature review on ...
Currently, the majority of community-based care is being provided to people with dementia through informal networks of family members and friends (Colombo et al., 2011; World Health Organisation, 2017). It is well recognised that long-term care systems across Europe are reliant on these informal...
Telling Patients They Have Alzheimer's Disease: Important for Planning Their Future, and No Evidence of Ill Effects Last year Conor et al reported that 83% of family members accompanying patients with Alzheimer's disease to a memory clinic did not want the patients informed of the diagnosis, de...
Dyads of caregivers and patients were randomized to the family meetings intervention (n=96) or usual care (n=96) condition. The intervention consisted of two individual sessions with the primary caregiver and four family counseling sessions that included family members and friends. The primary ...
Maintenance of communication is important for people with dementia living in long-term care. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using “Giraff”, a telepresence robot to enhance engagement between family and a person with dementia living in long-term care. Methods A mixed...
This collaborative symposium offered by the Hospice, Palliative, and End-of-Life Care and Nursing Care of Older Adults Interest Groups addresses palliative care including advance care planning considerations for family caregivers and persons with dementia. Family caregivers may need information about pallia...